" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Treacle-black
plastic oozes from a nozzle at the bottom of a small tower in Amsterdam,
depositing layer upon layer of glistening black worms in an orderly grid. With
a knot of pipes and wires rising up to a big hopper, it looks like a high-tech
liquorice production line. But this could be the future of house-building, if
Dus Architects have their way.

On this
small canal-side plot in the north of the city, dotted with twisting plastic
columns and strange zig-zag building blocks, the architects have begun making
what they say will be the world's first 3D-printed house.

“The
building industry is one of the most polluting and inefficient industries out
there,” says Hedwig Heinsman of Dus. “With 3D-printing, there is zero waste,
reduced transportation costs, and everything can be melted down and recycled.
This could revolutionise how we make our cities.”

Working on
site for three weeks, the architects have so far produced a 3m-high sample
corner of their future house, printed as a single piece weighing 180kg. It is
one of the building blocks that will be stacked up like Lego bricks over the
next three years to form a 13-room complex, modelled on a traditional Dutch
gabled canal house, but with hand-laid bricks replaced by a faceted plastic
facade, scripted by computer software.

At the
centre of the process is the KamerMaker, or Room Builder, a scaled-up version
of an open-source home 3D-printer, developed with Dutch firm Ultimaker. It uses
the same principle of extruding layers of molten plastic, only enlarged about
10 times, from printing desktop trinkets to chunks of buildings up to 2x2x3.5m
high.

For a
machine-made material, the samples have an intriguingly hand-made finish. In
places, it looks like bunches of black spaghetti. There are lumps and bumps,
knots and wiggles, seams where the print head appears to have paused or
slipped, spurting out more black goo than expected.

“We're
still perfecting the technology,” says Heinsman. The current material is a
bio-plastic mix, usually used as an industrial adhesive, containing 75% plant
oil and reinforced with microfibres. They have also produced tests with a
translucent plastic and a wood fibre mix, like a liquid form of MDF that can
later be sawn and sanded. “We will continue to test over the next three years,
as the technology evolves,” she says. “With a second nozzle, you could print
multiple materials simultaneously, with structure and insulation side by side.”

For now,
these plastic blocks, which are printed with a honeycomb lattice within for
reinforcement, are back-filled with lightweight concrete, for structural
strength and insulation – which would make recycling the parts somewhat
difficult.

“It's an
experiment,” says Heinsman. “We called it the room maker, but it's also a
conversation maker.” Over 2,000 people have already visited the site, from
building contractors to coach-loads of architecture students, while even Barack
Obama was shown the prototypes when he was in Amsterdam last week.

“This is
only the beginning, but there could be endless possibilities, from printing
functional solutions locally in slums and disaster areas, to high-end hotel
rooms that are individually customised and printed in marble dust.”

Countour crafting … Researchers at the University of Southern California have been developing a technology that 'prints' quick-setting concrete from acomputer controlled gantry. Photograph: Contour Crafting

While Dus
may be the first architects to start printing a full-scale house, they join a
number of others who have been experimenting with printing at an architectural
scale over the last few years. Since 2008, researchers at the University of
Southern California have been developing a technology, known as contour
crafting, that uses a computer-controlled gantry to print structures in
quick-setting concrete, which they say is potentially capable of printing
high-rise buildings, with the printer climbing the structure as it grows.
Another Dutch architect, Janjaap Ruijssenaars, is working on a project to print
a house shaped like a looping Mobius strip with the Italian-made D-Shape
printer, which uses sand mixed with a binding agent to create a form of
synthetic sandstone. So far, only a small pavilion-sized structure has been
printed. This looks to be where the technology will remain for the time being:
temporary novelty structures for exhibitions and events.

“One of my
fantasies is printing in biodegradable materials for festivals,” says Heinsman.
“You could print an outrageous tent structure, then after a couple of years and
few rain showers it disappears.”

Six more
3D-printing innovations

Skull
transplants

Increasingly
used in dentistry and facial reconstruction, the world's first 3D-printed skull
transplant was recently carried out in Utrecht hospital, replacing a
22-year-old's malformed skull with a plastic cranium.

Meat

Designer
steaks maybe coming your way thanks to US start-up, Modern Meadow, which has
printed artificial raw meat using a bioprinter. It doesn't come cheap, though –
a printed hamburger costs around £200,000.

Guns

Developed
by open source firm Defense Distributed, the plans for the Liberator handgun
were released online last May, and downloaded over 100,000 times in two days,
before the US Department of State had them removed. The Victoria & Albert
Museum now has a copy of the gun in its permanent collection.

Fashion

Dutch
designer Iris van Herpen has brought 3D printing to the catwalk, with complex
geometrical outfits made using a multi-material printer, and clothing
customised to individual body scans.

Space

Nasa is
planning to print satellite parts in orbit, and even build objects on the moon,
while private firm Deep Space Industries has launched a project to print
spacecraft parts using materials mined from asteroids in a “microgravity
foundry”. Norman Foster has also been working with the European Space Agency to
design a moon research base printed from lunar soil.

Sex toys

For that
extra personalised touch, US adult novelty company, the New York Toy
Collective, gives customers the chance to “scan your own”, while Makerlove
offers open-source files for people to customise their toys before printing in
the privacy of their own home.

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"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)